At this year’s VARAC festival, The Garage had a chance to speak with Dave Boone about his wonderful vintage dirt track racer, the Hubley Bluenose Special. The car was built in 1930, from an assortment of parts, many from the Chevrolet Brothers Speed Equipment Catalogue from the 20’s. The car is powered by a 1925 “490″ Chev engine that in stock form may have put out a whopping 35 HP and sports wheels from a 1935 Chevy. The engine inhales through a Fish carb that was built in Daytona and exhales through a unique, custom built header pipe. Due to it’s southern origin, the Fish carb has no choke, which works well in Florida, but not so well in the cooler months in Ontario.

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As regular readers of The Garage may have noticed, we are suckers for vintage racing of any sort. Phillip over at Classical Drive has posted about the wonders of visiting a vintage weekend. He sends us to Axis of Oversteer, a great blog for vintage racing enthusiasts, and anyone who’s really into BMW’s and the Lotus Elise. They have some fantastic in car video and a really nice slide show of images from this year’s Monaco Historics race.